Kci Licensing, Inc.

Spiracur Inc.

Cardiac Pathways Corporation

Tony Coxum

Dean Hu

Kenneth S Wu

Evan Anderson

Thomas J Yorkey

Brendan M Donohoe

Moshe Pinto

Kenton Fong

Craig McGreevy

Philip Hui

Methods and devices for treatment of damaged tissue are disclosed, including treatment of wounds by employing non-electrically powered, reduced pressure therapy devices. The devices are capable of generating a substantially constant reduced pressure with low tolerance for pressure fluctuations. Also disclosed herein are reduced pressure therapy systems that comprise an alarm system to detect the depleted state of the suction device and provide an alert to the patient and/or practitioner.

Controlled negative pressure apparatus and alarm mechanism

Reduced pressure wound therapy is performed on a sacral region of a patient using an adhesive dressing comprising a flexible planar layer and a non-planar fold-sealing region configured to seal to the intergluteal cleft of a patient. The fold-sealing region is located on an outer edge of the adhesive dressing and comprises a tapered configuration.

Reduced pressure therapy of the sacral region

Controlled negative pressure apparatus and absorbency mechanism

A torquable guiding catheter for use in mapping the wall of a heart of the patient with a mapping catheter having a distal extremity and a mapping device carried by the distal extremity and carrying a plurality of electrodes for engaging the wall of the heart. The basket-like device is movable between expanded and contracted positions and in a contracted position having an outside diameter no greater than a predetermined diameter. The torquable guiding catheter comprises a flexible elongate braided shaft assembly having proximal and distal extremities and having a smooth outer surface and also having a smooth inner surface defining a lumen extending from the proximal extremity to the distal extremity. The flexible elongate braided shaft assembly includes a braid formed of flat metal ribbon extending from the proximal extremity to the distal extremity and having plastic covering the braid having a Shore hardness durometer ranging from 55D to 75D. The surface defining the lumen is formed by a liner of a lubricious material adhered to the plastic encapsulating the braid and has a diameter at least as great as the predetermined diameter of the mapping device in a contracted position.

Torquable guiding catheter for basket deployment and method

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Tony Coxum